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In 1811 John Jacob Astor, envisioning a frontier empire in the Pacific Northwest, dispatched a land expedition westward under Wilson Price Hunt, via the Big Horn and Teton mountains, and a marine expedition around Cape Horn via the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands), to meet at the mouth of the Columbia River, where Astoria was established.
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fort carney, overland literature, three dollars per wagon, typescript reproduction, travois columns, overland phase, emigrant graves, fork ferry, big platte, ash hollow, fort register, undisclosed route, independence rock, emigrant register, five dollars per wagon, lone tree station, salt lake cutoff, north overland, handcart expedition, overland narratives, scotts bluffs, upper ferry, overland accounts, overland experience, heavy sand roads
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Fort Laramie, Fort Kearny, Salt Lake City, Council Bluffs, Green River, South Platte, Fort Bridger, Soda Springs, Oregon Trail, City of Rocks, Loup Fork, New York, Fort Leavenworth, Humboldt River, Bear River, Devil's Gate, Sierra Nevada, Nebraska City, Hudspeth Cutoff, Oregon City, Lassen Cutoff, Pacific Springs, Court House Rock, Sublette Cutoff, Deer Creek
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